India

Pay-television broadcaster Star India has partnered with telecommunications company Vodafone India to become the country’s first broadcaster and brand advertiser to participate in the Amplify platform of social networking website Twitter.

Indian pay-television channel Sony Six is thought to have faced no competition when agreeing a one-year extension to its rights deal for the Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition.

Pay-television broadcaster Star India asked for a delay to the start of the Indian Super League because of internal issues with the franchise football tournament, not, as widely reported, to avoid a clash with the Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament.

British-based satellite and broadcast production company SIS Live has claimed it is still owed £29m (€36.4m/$49.6m) from its production contract for the 2010 Commonwealth Games multi-sport event, which was hosted in New Delhi, India.

Pay-television broadcaster Star India has asked for the start of the Indian Super League franchise football tournament to be delayed to avoid a clash with the Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament.

The Delhi High Court has issued an injunction to prevent approximately 400 private websites in India from streaming coverage of football’s 2014 Fifa World Cup.

Sony-owned Indian broadcaster Multi Screen Media has launched an online portal that will offer live video content from high-profile sporting events.

Indian pay-television broadcaster Star Sports has reported a record-breaking audience of 2.8 million for Wednesday’s online streaming of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket play-off matches between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians, and Kings XI Punjab versus Kolkata Knight Riders.

Times Internet, the online and mobile arm of Indian publishing company Times Group, has sublicensed live mobile streaming rights for the 2014 season of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament to Indian media company NexGTv.

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Indian sports and entertainment pay-television channel Sony Six has acquired the exclusive rights to the 2014 India Open badminton tournament.

Neo Sports Broadcast, a division of the Nimbus Communications agency, has elected to take the distribution of its Neo Sports and Neo Prime pay-television channels in-house.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) and media partner the Infront Sports & Media agency have announced that the 2014 Track World Championships will be broadcast live to more than 100 territories around the world, including for the first time in India and Malaysia.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has snatched the rights to cricket’s Indian Premier League, TV Sports Markets understands, beating off competition from rival pay-television operator BT and commercial broadcaster ITV, the UK rights-holder for the last four seasons.

In the increasingly competitive Indian pay-television market, Sony Six has begun 2014 on the front foot, snapping up prestigious properties in cricket, football, tennis and rugby...

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